posted at 5:33 pm on October 14, 2011 by Tina Korbe

Really not sure what to make of this. I have a hard time believing this kid is serious — and his periodic smirk makes me wonder if his rant might not be a — to borrow a word from Rachel Maddow — “genius,” ironic, satiric, mocking, obnoxious, somewhat schizophrenic and absolutely over-the-top parody of the real protesters. Right? Surely?

At the same time that I’m posting this, I’m thinking this is why the Flea Party (h/t Ann Coulter) is still out there protesting. The rest of us can’t tear our eyes away from the wreck, and all the coverage makes them feel important. Maybe it’s time to quit rubbernecking …

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He looks exhausted. They all do – which is about what you’d expect from people sleeping outdoors and rampaging around with other nitwits and experiencing an emotional high. They’re on the, er, cutting edge of a revolution, after all. So bottom line, I wonder how much of this hysteria (from him and others) is just a sleep deprived meltdown.

Good Lord! Of course the media doesn’t show any of the crazies. They’re fighting for “fairness.” according to them. This whole thing would have been gone and done with if the press would actually report on what’s really going on

I have a hard time believing this kid is serious — and his periodic smirk makes me wonder if his rant might not be a — to borrow a word from Rachel Maddow — “genius,” ironic, satiric, mocking, obnoxious, somewhat schizophrenic and absolutely over-the-top parody of the real protesters. Right? Surely?

dilettante; a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.

We live in a culture that takes little, or nothing seriously and everything is approached with the Jon Stewart style of cynicism.

May the winter never come in NY so that this dreck “America is supposed to be” will stay on the streets until the election of 2012. The left have no clue what they have coming. Please keep them continuing this circus.

anybody remember MDA from about 35 years ago? I think it was the precursor to ecstacy…thats how looks 6 hours after it wears off with no sleep. And the little gal with the glasses was always crying by the end of the party back then too.

Mr. Hall said that he grew up in New Mexico and that both his parents were politically active lawyers who were thrilled that he was pursuing a socially conscious life and was involved in the Occupy Wall Street protest. Mr. Hall said he attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and then transferred to Bard College in upstate New York because of its reputation as a socially conscious school.

He had been renting in Washington Heights for the past two years while attending doctoral classes at Columbia University as a nonmatriculated student. He said that he supported his modest lifestyle on savings he earned working as a teenager and that he also had “a small trust fund” from his grandfather that he had not drawn from yet. For the past four weeks, he has eaten free meals and has slept in the park.

Allah, why aren’t you down there filming this trainwreck? Please. . . you can even wear a Guy Fawkes mask and remain anon.
Jason Coleman on October 14, 2011 at 5:40 PM

AP’s still busy downing the 5000 cans of beans he hoarded to fight off the Apocalyptic August NYC Not-a-cane. And, you know, with every floor you are up from ground level the gas pains become exponentially worse.

They are as sincere and ‘real’ as the Coffee Party was, which is to say they are backed by rich corporate leftists and their supporters are comfortable middle class/upper class snots playing at ‘fight the power’. It’s like the Hollywood celebs who get all weepy about their newest desperate cause of the month. Do they mean it? Yeah, sorta.

Look, I was drunk and I am pretty sure someone laced my booze with some LSD. And I don’t know who she was, but you know how it is when you’re drunk…even baboons look attractive. I am sobering up now and I conveniently lost her phone number and just pray I didn’t give her my real name. But go ahead and laugh at me, I deserve it.

One, Edward T. Hall III, 25, was barefoot and dressed in loud, multicolored tights. He wore Native American clothes and New Age jewelry, with a baseball cap pulled sideways over his long hair…

Mr. Hall is a well-educated young man with a privileged upbringing who says he is following a greater calling than getting a job and making money. He sees the current protest as a global movement to help fight poverty and economic inequality. He has spent the past month sleeping in the park and is one of the organizers of the protest.

This mess is escalating because the media wants it to. It’s their version of the tea party only the press backs these as true “patriots” unlike the racist tea party. I’m beginning to worry about where this is going, and yes I do think Obama and the Dems are behind this…

Attention Whole Foods shoppers: Our Carrots have lost their Top. but the passer-by @ 0:43 seemed to be holding a nice piece of Evil, Corporate, DEBIL tech in her hands – as Mama Boucher would say. hmm?

So bottom line, I wonder how much of this hysteria (from him and others) is just a sleep deprived meltdown.

Laura Curtis on October 14, 2011 at 5:39 PM

Uh, don’t forget the drugs and alcohol along with sleep deprivation, then it’s easy to see how this person and most of the OWS’ers would behave in such a manner! Just wait, another three weeks of this and their behavior will be even more crazed along with foaming at the mouth!

I’m kinda really enjoying these. The most entertaining things I’ve watched for quite some time. I’d want to keep seeing and hearing more and more Democrats coming out and supporting this drug crazed mob! Yep.. this needs to be the picture of the Democrat party and Obama supporters! I say let it continue!

Dawn of the Hippie Dead!

I read earlier on Drudge that a few cities have broken up these groups. They sent in the police and the groups pretty much melted and left. But then, where’s the fun in that?

I have a hard time believing this kid is serious — and his periodic smirk makes me wonder if his rant might not be a — to borrow a word from Rachel Maddow — “genius,” ironic, satiric, mocking, obnoxious, somewhat schizophrenic and absolutely over-the-top parody of the real protesters. Right? Surely?

Could be that in 20 yrs or so he’ll have awoken from his hippie dream and embraced rationality. Then he’ll regret this video every
time it plays on one of those history channel pieces on the Great Occupation of 2011.
Or not. Could go either way.

Mr. Hall is a well-educated young man with a privileged upbringing who says he is following a greater calling than getting a job and making money. He sees the current protest as a global movement to help fight poverty and economic inequality. He has spent the past month sleeping in the park and is one of the organizers of the protest.

Cool fact: In January 2011 he jumped the counter at JFK because he forgot his ID and for love. Cried and recited poetry and jumped on the luggage belt in attempt to elude TSA. http://tinyurl.com/4d4t6y7 (Warning: Puffington Host link!)

I have a hard time believing this kid is serious — and his periodic smirk makes me wonder if his rant might not be a — to borrow a word from Rachel Maddow — “genius,” ironic, satiric, mocking, obnoxious, somewhat schizophrenic and absolutely over-the-top parody of the real protesters. Right? Surely?

You kidding me? He’s absolutely serious! He’s really into it! He feels it! So it’s got to be real! It’s the most emotion he has felt in his life in a long long time! So it’s got to be the most real thing he has ever been apart of… because it feels so right! This is probably the most thrilling thing he has ever been a part of.. he’s making history!

There is no place better… no event more important to be a part of today in America if you are a lazy, ignorant, self centered, uneducated college kid with 3 degrees and $50,000. in debt and no job than in that park! You become somebody really important… a part of history that could change the world and all you got to do is show up, lay down and take it off and you become somebody! You are a part of something bigger than your worthless unambitious self and you don’t have to do a blasted thing!